How We Can Assist a Family Law Lawyer
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Our goal is to help a woman to work effectively with her lawyer. To accomplish this, we offer the following:
- Provide emotional support and improve the woman's coping skills to assist her in working effectively with her lawyer
- Provide safety planning which facilitates requests for appropriate restraining orders
- Compile historical information and third party information to provide to the lawyer
- Accompany the woman to lawyer's appointments to assist her in understanding what her lawyer has said and needs from her.
- Support for a woman to follow through on her lawyer's requests.
- Assist a woman to cope with tactics used by her abusive spouse during the litigation process.
- Accompany the woman to court for support.
- Provide assistance that may be requested by the woman's lawyer (i.e. review of court documents).
- Make referrals to other needed community supports (i.e. housing, income support, etc).
Care to Volunteer or Make a Donation?
These services are provided free of charge to abused women and their children. If you would like to make a charitable donation or donate services, we would appreciate your support.
Lawyers can support the work of Luke's Place by:
- Volunteering to speak on a topic for the Family Law Networking Group.
- Participating in committee or ad hoc committee work for the Legal Advisory Group (LAG). LAG is a group of family law lawyers and administrators of family law services who provide consultation and collaboration about the legal dimension of the work at Luke’s Place.
- Donating pro-bono time for the Pro Bono Summary Advice Clinic
- Sponsoring or donating to Luke's Place or to a Luke's Place fundraising event
Please mail your donation to:
Luke's Place
P.O. Box 54040,
8 kings Street, Oshawa, ON,
L1H 1A9
Or contact us
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